simple past tense and past participle of discard

(transitive) To throw away, to reject. / (intransitive, card games) To make a discard; to throw out a card. / To dismiss from employment, confidence, or favour; to discharge.

Anything discarded. / A discarded playing card in a card game. / (programming) A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.

plural of discard

present participle of discard

The act by which something is discarded; a throwing away. / (in the plural) Discarded material.

One who, or that which, discards.

plural of discarder

That can be discarded.

An item that can be discarded.